As of 11:45 a.m. on Dec. 12, 2012, the pope is being followed by 824, 808 accounts and his first post was retweeted a staggering 41,725 times. In case you were wondering, his current Klout score is 71.

In total, he has posted five tweets, two of which are questions presumably submitted by his followers. He has promptly answered both questions, although without the use of a period at the end of either of those tweets.

He has yet to use a hashtag, either. And, taking a page from The Onion, he is only following himself, albeit in seven different languages.

Additionally, he is using a background photo of St. Peter’s Square with a nifty profile picture of himself giving a slight, congenial wave.

According to the Twitter API which tracks account details, the Pope’s Twitter account, @Pontifex, was created on Thursday, Feb 23, 2012, at 11:38 a.m.

At time of hitting publish on this post (11: 50 a.m.), the pope’s AMA moment on Reddit has yet to be confirmed. But, considering Obama’s AMA broke Reddit’s servers, we’re not sure that organization has the infrastructure to sustain a Papal AMA.

Mike MacDonald is a news editor and writer at Postmedia. His writing also appears weekly in The Onion. When not working, Michael can be found playing crunchy grooves on his ukulele in his Toronto home... read more.View author's profile